We have some users that are interested in reading about technical systemstatus updates and what the sysadmins are doing in general. The obvioussolution is some sort of blog-like environment where sysadmins writethings periodically, but the problem with an actual blog is that ittakes too much time to write something, especially if we are in themiddle of a semi-crisis.

Hence the attraction of Twitter. The short length of Twitter messages(and their lack of formatting) means that we simply can't writevery much

For quite a while now, CPU vendors have been trying to persuade peopleto spend a great deal of money recoding applications to run on heavilymulticore CPUs so that the CPU vendors could continue to sell expensivenew CPUs (to put it one way ). Themotivation CPU vendors offer is that if you don't make the investment,system performance can't increase any more and then the wheels come offeveryone's wagon, not just theirs.

Now consider the current SSD boom. Pretty much everyone agrees that